Software Engineer, iOS

Developer

Anywhere

Posted November 29

Overview

The Wikimedia iOS team is a small but impactful group. We’re passionate about our global community of users and want to leverage the strengths of iOS to bring a world class Wikipedia experience to their fingertips.

The team is looking for an experienced iOS software engineer who loves to empower and delight users with thoughtfully crafted apps. In this role, you will create new features, fix bugs, and define the future of Wikipedia on mobile devices.

Responsibilities:

Ensure the quality of the app through thoughtful code architecture decisions, automated testing, and a passion for world class user experiences

Collaborate with design and product management to iterate on new features

Experience building software with web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, and CSS)

Development of web services with Node.js or PHP (or both)

Got code?

Show us your stuff! If you have any existing work that you’d like to highlight (these could be your own software or patches to other packages), please share the URLs. Links to GitHub or the App Store are exceptionally useful.

…the nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply